Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haven't checked any of those old Mengelbergs for years (or any of the others, 
now that you mention it) but Capitol's issue of some Joseph Schmidt records was 
good enough for Telefunken to press from the Capitol stampers. Seems to me 
their dubs to 78 were also good. (Mercury's dubs of similar material, on the 
other hand....anyone remember the needle drop they left in on the Shostakovich 
piano LP?)

dl

Steven Smolian wrote:
> Stragely enough I recall decent 78 sound on some of the the brown-cover 
> Caoitol reissues from Telefunken.
>
> Steve Smolian
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 7:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Pristine Audio (?!)
>
>
> > Marcos Sueiro Bal wrote:
> > > Having said that, I always say that any transfer is usually better 
> > > than no transfer (unless you damage the original, of course).
> > Bullshit. Sorry. Bad transfers are bad transfers and do nothing to 
> > convert the very people we want to get to listen to something other 
> > than the latest hotshot tenor or headbanger. Most early LP transfers 
> > of 78s were holy horrors (wow, bad joins, level flux), even when they 
> > were dubbed from the 16-inch originals (Columbia's early LP transfers 
> > from English and European 78s are unspeakably bad by any standards) 
> > and these were followed by attempts to "modernize" them with reverb 
> > and bad EQ and then squeeze 33 minutes onto a twelve-inch side. 
> > Camdens for the most part were even worse. It's no wonder that a 
> > generation or two had no respect for the previous 25 years of recorded 
> > sound when it was presented to them in that manner.
> >
> > dl